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Hedgehog Food

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£12.50

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NHF

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2Kg
£12.50
6kg
£25.50 - Backorder
13Kg
£43.00 - Backorder

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With hedgehog numbers having more than halved in the UK since just 2000, putting out this special biscuit-based hedgehog food in your garden could help the local population in your area. This chicken flavoured hedgehog food complements the natural diet of a hedgehog, and not only is it nutrient, vitamin and mineral rich, it also aids the hedgehog’s dental health. Easy and clean to feed, this hedgehog food has been developed with the input of hedgehog charities.

As this is a dry food, it’s very important to also provide a low and shallow dish of clean water for hedgehogs to drink. This also applies to the winter months, as the milder conditions we now typically experience as a result of climate change, mean that hedgehogs very rarely hibernate for the whole winter period

Chicken flavoured biscuits made from poultry meat meal, maize gluten meal, meat and bone meal, poultry oil, fish meal, salmon oil, brewer's yeast, poultry digest, extract of yucca schidigera

Orders received by 3pm Monday to Friday will be dispatched via DHL on a no signature delivery service; simply advise us where to leave your bags. We don't deliver on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays.

Some orders less than 1kg in weight will come by Royal Mail.

Orders for Live Mealworms are sent directly from our supplier via Royal Mail. They are dispatched the same day if orders are received by 12pm Mon-Thurs; no orders are dispatched on a Friday. Please allow four working days for orders to arrive.

If you have not received your order within seven working days please contact us on 01775 630208.

We now deliver to all of mainland UK with no extra delivery charge. Please note that some postcode areas that are classed as Scottish Islands and Highlands may take 2-3 working days to arrive. For deliveries outside of these areas a £10 charge will be applied. Postcode areas affected include HS, IV41 – IV49, IV51, IV55 and IV56, KA27 and KA28, KW15 to KW17, PA20, PA41 to PA49, PA60 to PA78, PH42 to PH44, ZE, Isle of Man

We are unable to deliver to the Republic of Ireland or the Channel Islands.

More Information Frequently Asked Questions

Using our hedgehog food in your garden is one of the ways you can help reverse the trend of declining hedgehog numbers in the UK, which is now more important than ever as the population of this highly appealing mammal has dropped by more than 50% since 2000. Biscuit based, this hedgehog food is chicken flavoured and contains the nutrients, vitamins and minerals that hedgehogs need. Developed with input and advice from hedgehog charities, the biscuit texture of this clean and easy-to-feed food also helps the dental health of hedgehogs.

As this hedgehog food is dry, it’s really important to provide a low and shallow dish of clean water right next to where you put the food in your garden. Providing food and water for hedgehogs throughout the year is important and especially in urban areas where natural food is less available. Regarding the winter months, although in past decades hedgehogs would hibernate in very cold months, our relatively mild winters now mean this rarely happens for any great length of time. The issue for hedgehogs then becomes that natural food such as slugs and earthworms are harder to find in the winter, so this adds to the importance of providing food and water for them.

It’s a small and dry biscuit which has been developed with input from experts working in hedgehog charities. The hedgehog food contains the minerals, nutrients and vitamins that hedgehogs need, but as it’s a dry food it’s essential that clean water is provided in a shallow dish right next to where it’s put out in gardens.

Put the food into a low dish so hedgehogs can easily access it, then place a second low dish next to it which is filled with clean water.

Potentially, yes, with the chances of them doing so increased if there is always food and water available. Providing a suitable hedgehog house may also mean they stay in the garden.

Foods you should NOT put out for hedgehogs include milk, bread, raw meat, oats, raisins and citrus fruits.

Yes, and by doing so you encourage hedgehogs to regularly visit your garden. In addition, if one or more hedgehogs come to a garden expecting to find food and it then isn’t there, they’ve used up valuable energy on their journey. So feeding hedgehogs is something that, once started, needs to be continued in an unbroken way.

The first thing to ensure is that hedgehogs have access to your garden. If this isn’t easy for hedgehogs and from an obvious area they’d likely enter from - e.g. under a gate - then a really good option is to make a 13 x 13cm hole at the base of a fence to your neighbour’s garden - obviously having agreed that with them first! Indeed, some entire residential communities have taken such action on roads and housing estates across the country, with the benefit to hedgehogs being huge. Once access for hedgehogs has been achieved, then provide our hedgehog food and clean water right next to it. A wildlife friendly garden with plenty of rough and overgrown areas will also help, as this encourages natural food for hedgehogs to also feed on. Plus of course, a hedgehog house tucked into a sheltered corner of your garden can encourage them to stay and even breed.

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